Daniel Kremer
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- July 23, 1984
- Birthplace
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Filmmaker, film historian, biographer, and professional film archivist Daniel Kremer grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He graduated Temple University's film program and now lives in San Francisco. In 2007, while living in Philadelphia, he directed his first feature Sophisticated Acquaintance (2007). His second feature A Trip to Swadades (2008), which was shot on black-and-white super-16mm film, won three Best Feature Film awards. Following that film's international festival tour (which included Rotterdam), he moved to New York City, where he lived for nearly seven years. At one point, he studied to be an Orthodox rabbi, but gave it up to continue pursuing film. In 2011, he completed his acclaimed follow-up feature, The Idiotmaker's Gravity Tour (2011). The film was lensed predominantly in India. Subsequent to that, he directed Raise Your Kids on Seltzer (2015), Ezer Kenegdo (2017), Overwhelm the Sky (2019), and Even Just (2020) in the San Francisco Bay Area, using independent filmmaking icon Rob Nilsson's regular cast and crew. The critically lauded Overwhelm the Sky was given special coverage for having been released in the classic epic "roadshow" format, and was picked up for distribution by Kino Lorber. His partly autobiographical cinema-themed essay documentary It's a Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie Point (2023) garnered raves from the British Film Institute, veteran critic Gerald Peary (For the Love of Movies), and many others. Kremer has screened work at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), the Joseph Conrad Festival in Krakow, Poland, Maryland International Film Festival, San Francisco Independent Film Festival, Brussels International Film Festival, Glasgow Film Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Fantasporto Film Festival in Porto, Portugal, Rivers Edge International Film Festival, Mill Valley Film Festival, and many other international venues. His second book, currently in editing at Oxford University Press, is the first to cover filmmaker Joan Micklin Silver (Hester Street, Chilly Scenes of Winter, Crossing Delancey). His first book, about the life and career of filmmaker Sidney J. Furie (The Ipcress File, Lady Sings the Blues, The Boys in Company C, The Entity), was published by University Press of Kentucky's Screen Classics Series in November 2015. His third book, now being researched, will be the first to cover the life and career of classic Hollywood director Irving Rapper (Now Voyager, The Corn is Green, The Brave One, Marjorie Morningstar). As a film scholar, he has provided DVD/Blu-Ray commentary tracks for sixteen companies. As a Trailers from Hell guru, he is listed alongside other gurus like Guillermo del Toro, Luca Guadagnino, Eli Roth, Joe Dante, Edgar Wright, John Landis, Roger Corman, John Sayles, and many others.
Filmography
Sidney J. Furie: Fire Up the Carousel! TBA
Director
Countercurrents TBA
Director, Writer
Never the Same Step Twice: The Later Films of Stanley Donen TBA
as Narrator, Director, Editor, Writer
Terms and Conditions Apply: The Cinema of Robert Ellis Miller TBA
as Narrator, Director, Editor, Writer
Even Just TBA
as Mr. Slivovitz, the Image Inspector, Director of Photography, Director, Producer
A Man of Potential: Visions of Paul Wendkos, the Godard of Gidget 2026
as Narrator, Director, Writer, Editor
Now, Irving Rapper 2026
as Narrator, Director, Writer, Editor
William Wyler: Forty Takes Willy 2025
as Himself
Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders 2025
as Narrator, Director, Editor, Writer
Cruel, Usual, Necessary: The Passion of Silvio Narizzano 2024
as Narrator, Writer, Editor, Director
Jack of Three Trades: In Focus on Nicholson the Director 2024
as Narrator (voice), Director, Editor, Writer
Dead Neon: The Many Faces of Lenny Bruce on Film 2023
as Narrator, Director, Writer
Survival Scars: Franklin J. Schaffner as Auteur 2023
as Narrator, Director, Writer, Editor
Cinema of the Pilpul: A Talmudic View of Early Holocaust Cinema 2023
as Narrator, Editor, Director, Writer
It's a Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie Point 2023
as Narrator, Writer, Producer, Editor, Director
Clear Lines of Sight: Sidney J. Furie at Paramount 2023
as Narrator, Editor, Writer, Director
Elective Vicissitudes: The Radical Exiles of Jules Dassin 2023
as Narrator, Writer, Director, Editor
The Brando Interregnum: The Decade of Marlon's Dirty Dozen 1962-1972 2022
as Narrator, Writer, Director, Editor
Paralyzed Segments: Suzanne Pleshette Tangled Up in Codes 2022
as Narrator, Editor, Writer, Director
The Great Ecstasy of Tree-Climber Otto, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Late Preminger 2022
as Narrator, Director, Editor, Writer
Xenolith Atlas 2022
Actor
Looking to Get Out: A Comparative Analysis of the Ted Kotcheff Vision 2022
as Narrator, Writer, Editor, Director
Ammo for Shooting Clouds: John G. Avildsen Before Rocky 2022
as Narrator, Director, Writer, Editor
La Vie en Gris: The Anglophone Louis Malle in Seven Pictures 2022
as Narrator, Writer, Editor, Director
Faultline 2022
Second Unit Director
Equinox Expressway 2022
Director, Editor, Cinematography
Arid Cut 2019
as Judd
Overwhelm the Sky 2019
Editor, Director, Screenplay, Producer, Story
Drive Me to Vegas and Mars 2018
Assistant Director
Torch 2018
Editor
Ezer Kenegdo 2017
as Izzy Jonigkeyt, Writer, Editor, Director
The Fourth Movement 2017
as Ari
Summer Sacrament 2017
Editor
Next Week in Bologna 2016
Editor
Love Twice 2016
Editor
Raise Your Kids on Seltzer 2015
Director, Writer
Righteous Rebel: Rabbi Avi Weiss 2014
Editor
A Simple Game of Catch 2012
Director, Director of Photography
The Wind Blows Where It Wishes 2011
as Don Marco
The Idiotmaker's Gravity Tour 2011
Director, Writer
A Collection of Chemicals 2009
Screenplay, Director
Points on a Space Age 2009
Editor
Jim and the Infidels 2008
Director of Photography
A Trip to Swadades 2008
Director, Writer
Sophisticated Acquaintance 2007
Director, Writer
Ben Fries the Slaves 2007
as Dan Kramer, Director of Photography
David Cronenberg Presents Wireless Internet 2006
as Dan Kramer
Charles at the Threshold 2006
Director, Writer
- Danny and the Scatman
Danny and the Scatman 1999
as Self
Credits from TMDB.